Stop Making Religion a Compulsion in Private Universities- NUC
The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, has called appealed to owners of private universities to respect the universal spirit of the university and stop making religion a compulsion in religion.
Prof. Rasheed stated this in response to a report raised by Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) that Muslim students are facing forceful conversion in private universities owned by Christians in the country.
The NUC boss, while answering questions from journalists during an interactive session on Wednesday in Abuja, said, “MURIC has not formally written to us and normally we don’t dabble into religious politics.
The commission had never registered any private university with a religious name but are aware that 60 percent of some universities are owned by churches and some few owned by Muslim organisations but that many others are secular.
According to Prof. Rasheed, “NUC is more concerned with our quality assurance activities. No form of information has come to our desk regarding the issues
“Lately, there are varieties and options, if you feel you don’t like that environment change; go to another one – we have 111 private universities.
“We still maintain that potentially, a university is open to every creed, ethnic group and gender. We do not allow a university to say this university is for us Catholic alone or Muslims alone and others cannot come.”
Source: Dailytrust.com
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